inoculate (someone) with (something)

To vaccinate someone so that they become immune to a particular disease (named after "with"). The kids have been inoculated against measles, mumps, and rubella with the MMR vaccine. No, I never caught chicken pox as a kid, so my pediatrician eventually inoculated me with the chicken pox vaccine. Doctors inoculated us with the polio vaccine in the 1960s.

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inoculate against (something)

To vaccinate someone so that they become immune to a particular disease (named after "against"). A noun or pronoun can be used between "inoculate" and "against." No, I never had chicken pox as a kid, so I've been inoculated against it. The MMR vaccine inoculates children against measles, mumps, and rubella. Doctors inoculated us against polio in the 1960s.

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inoculate someone against something

to immunize someone against a disease. We need to inoculate all the children against whooping cough. Have you been inoculated against measles?

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inoculate someone with something

to use a particular substance in immunizing someone against a disease. Donna inoculated Richard and Nancy with yellow fever vaccine for their trip. She also inoculated Sam with something to prevent malaria.

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* Thumb-style brass inoculators ($35 each at Field & Forest Products, www.FieldForest.net).

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"This amendment is an inoculator. The first amendment being debated here on the floor is being inoculated," Mr.

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Ratio and number of particles of inoculators and the activating additive were selected experimentally in order to achieve maximum refining of the cast metal structure.

Application of modifying for improving properties of annular billets from nitrogen-containing stainless steels produced by method of centrifugal electroslag casting

A MEDICAL diagnostics firm has created an inoculator machine that is meeting the needs of laboratories.

Inoculator machine wins firm pounds 200, 000 extra contracts

All tests were assayed on plates and were spot inoculated with a multipoint inoculator, except for O/F (oxidative or fermentative metabolism of glucose), ODC (ornithine decarboxylase), LDC (lysine decarboxylase), HDC (histidine decarboxylase), ADH (arginine dihydrolase), Voges-Proskauer, methyl red, Kligler, nitrate reduction, indole production, and the hydrolysis of urea when tests were performed in tubes.

A set of tests for the phenotypic identification of culturable bacteria associated with Galician bivalve mollusc production

The Terminator might indeed become the Inoculator; which is one reason the Republican right in California hasn't embraced him.

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This inoculator can handle volumes from 0.010 to 1.25 ml and its tip design allows dispensing into both 96- and 384-well plates as well as the MicroPlates used by the inoculator to prevent contamination.

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Field trials of fish marking using a Jet Inoculator. Journal of Fish Biology 1:383-385.

CANNIBALISM AND COMPETITION IN EURASIAN PERCH: POPULATION DYNAMICS OF AN ONTOGENETIC OMNIVORE

Should we therefore respect individual preferences and consider inoculations to be a private transaction (between inoculator and inoculatee)?

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The egg inoculator is also a bioengineered process.

The chicken or the egg? Five years after hitting the market, this innoculation system has changed the industry

If we discarded one approach, what would we do with the expensive equipment--the dispenser and inoculator for microdilution or the replica plate reader system?

The consolidation of two microbiology labs

Agar dilution method was used for the determination of MICs of MGO, using a multi-point inoculator. The data was compiled and results were determined using SPSS version 17.

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF METHYLGLYOXAL AGAINST MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT SALMONELLA TYPHI

The NOD/SCID mice were anesthetized, and the distal pancreases were exteriorized,[sup][27],[28] and 10[sup]6 viable tumor cells in 10 [micro]l of cell suspension were injected into the pancreas using an inoculator with a 27-gauge needle.

Continuous Low-dose-rate Irradiation of Iodine-125 Seeds Inhibiting Perineural Invasion in Pancreatic Cancer

Next, Sanchez grabs a tool called an inoculator. It looks like a hollow brass rod about a foot long.

Food of the woods; Mushroom venture flourishes